Leda and the Swan 丽达与天鹅

Leda and the Swan 丽达与天鹅

by W. B. Yeats (叶芝，也有的译作“叶慈”)

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

突然袭击：在踉跄的少女身上，

一双巨翅还在乱扑，一双黑蹼

抚弄她的大腿，鹅喙衔着她的颈项，

他的胸脯紧压她无计脱身的胸脯。

手指啊，被惊呆了，哪还有能力

从松开的腿间推开那白羽的荣耀？

身体呀，翻倒在雪白的灯心草里，

感到的唯有其中那奇异的心跳！

腰股内一阵颤栗．竟从中生出

断垣残壁、城楼上的浓烟烈焰

和阿伽门农之死。

当她被占有之时

当地如此被天空的野蛮热血制服

直到那冷漠的喙把她放开之前，

她是否获取了他的威力，他的知识？